EMS Manual

EMS Programs
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EMSDIST—Distributor Program
maxextent of 16 pages. A page contains 2048 bytes. Therefore, the created file
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WAIT n
overrides the two minute default timeout for all textout destinations specified to
a printing distributor. n is given in seconds. If WAIT is specified, the distributor
retries every n seconds, even if there is only one destination. If the textout is a
routing destination, the event is skipped. If a file system error occurs, and
WAIT is specified, the distributor does not retry and skips to the next line. This
situation can occur with certain unprintable characters. If WAIT is not specified,
the error is retried indefinitely.
TIME { date }
{ [ date ] time }
specifies the generation time of the first event message to be examined by the
distributor. This is a positioning parameter; only event messages with a
generation time that is greater than or equal to date-time are examined.
If you give only the date part of the TIME option, 0:00:00 is the default time
value. If you give only the time part of the TIME option, the current date is the
default date value.
If you omit the TIME option, the default value depends on whether you
specified a COLLECTOR or a LOGFILE option:

If you used a COLLECTOR option, the distributor is positioned to the event
message next written to the collector log file.

If you used a LOGFILE option, the distributor is positioned to the first event
message in the log file.
date
The date parameter can have the forms:
year - month# - day
month day year
day month year
You can separate the parts of the first form of a date with hyphens, and
with spaces for the other two forms.
For example, you can specify a date as 1999-12-31, DEC 31 1999, or
31 DEC 1999.
year is a four-digit integer
month is a three-letter abbreviation for the month (JAN, FEB, and so on)
month# is the number of the month, one or two digits
day is a one-digit or two-digit integer